Hello, I am a future mechanical engineer, and In my Graduation project I should make a box composed of two parts: a housing and a cover between them I should make a removeble seal, this box should have an ingress protection IP69k. Please, do you have any idea about Seals that can ensure this requirement, their form, their material and their compression ratio. Please, it's the most important requirement that I should make.
Hello, If someone have any document or site (même en français) that explane the relation between seals and the ingress protection. It's urgent please. Thank you.
start by finding out what Ingress Protection IP69K is - look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code then look at your box, where can water/dust enter ? then look at putting in 'O' rings http://www.jameswalker.biz/product_range/154--O-rings to prevent it getting in. Tony,
Thank you very much Tonycro, If some one need the standard of the ingress protection, he can download it from here "http://www.evs.ee/preview/iso-20653-2006-en.pdf" Do you think that the 'O' ring can ensure the IP69k, because I should argue my choice, and I dont find any document that make relation between Seals and the IP. Thank you.
Ive got through IP6x (dust ingress) no problem in the past with simple orings used correctly. IPx9 (water ingress) might be difficult. I believe there's no official test spec because it's for submersibles and I think you're somehow supposed to define the spec yourself (not sure how that works exactly). I've had a quite a bit of aggro getting enclosures through IPx8 in the past (under 1m of water) so IPx9 might be tricky.
Thank you GarethW, In fact, this IP is a customer recuirement, he want to make a box containing a pcb, a housing and a cover and it shoudl ensure the IP69k. I suppose that they use this in submarines. My choice should be argued[FONT=arial, sans-serif]. Thank you for your cooperation.[/FONT]
Actually there is no Product, I should make the mechanical part of the project. this product is an electronic device that will be used in submarins and they dont gave me more information because it's confidential.
